Gain insights into Kotlin language essentials and delve into design patterns and best practices. Discover functional programming techniques to enhance code reuse, robustness, and build reliable, scalable projects.

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Design patterns enable developers to speed up the development process by providing proven development paradigms. Reusing design patterns helps prevent complex issues that can cause major problems. Moreover, it improves your codebase, promotes code reuse, and makes an architecture more robust.

In this course, you will start with a gentle introduction of the Kotlin language. You will explore design patterns that are part of the best practices that help developers use Kotlin efficiently. Design patterns appeared in the era of object-oriented languages such as C++ and Java. You will learn the language features that Kotlin provides, which allow developers to program in a functional style and implement the design patterns.

After taking this course, you’ll be able to take your knowledge of Kotlin, design patterns, and associated best practices to the software industry and apply it to build reliable, scalable, and maintainable projects.

Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices


Let’s imagine we have our little indie company consisting of only me, a canary named Michael that acts as a product manager, and two cat designers that sleep most of the day but produce some decent mockups from time to time. 

Now the company has hired more employees that will do the work of QAs, and the rest of the responsibilities and Michael will just manage them.



Since Michael became a manager, it's been tough to catch him if I have a question. And when I do ask him something, he just throws something and runs to the next meeting.
Yesterday, I asked him what new weapon we should introduce in our game. He told me it should be a Coconut Cannon, clear as day. But today, when I presented him with this feature, he chirped at me angrily! Finally, he said he told me to implement a Pineapple launcher instead. 

Learn how to implement the Memento design pattern in Kotlin.

Getting Started with Kotlin

Working with Creational Patterns

Understanding Structural Patterns

Getting Familiar with Behavioral Patterns

Introducing Functional Programming

Threads and Coroutines

Controlling the Data Flow

Designing for Concurrency

Idioms and Anti-Patterns

Concurrent Microservices with Ktor

Reactive Microservices with Vert.x

Conclusion

Memento Design Pattern